[mb-users] Correct typography

[Philip Jägenstedt]

On 9/15/07, Kacper Gutowski <mwgamera at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, probably different rules for different languages would be needed.
> I think current "use three dots and simple quotation marks"
> are not only not enough but for non-English releases it's just wrong.
> See the example that I linked. Three middle dots, moreover from different
> script than the rest of title (halfwidth vs. fullwidth). Is this OK?
> Oh yes, I would forgot, there are many releases (esp. Japanese),
> that use either fullwidth or halfwidth Latin characters. This shall be uniform.

No one is suggesting that using katakana halfwidth dots for
punctuation in non-japanese script is sane, and I have myself fixed at
least one similar case.

The issue of mixing halfwidth and fullwidth punctuation is very common
in Chinese releases as well and is bothering me too, so perhaps I
should be welcoming this initiative, carefully... I'm just worried
that whatever guidelines we come up with will fit some of the quirky
cases poorly, like when scripts and languages are mixed... There needs
to be a big "do what is sane" exception I suppose.

Philip